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Poetry and the Police - Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Paperback)
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Poetry and the Police - Communication Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Paperback)
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Listen to "An Electronic Cabaret: Paris Street Songs, 1748-50" for
songs from Poetry and the PoliceAudio recording copyright (c) 2010
by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights
reserved. In spring 1749, Francois Bonis, a medical student in
Paris, found himself unexpectedly hauled off to the Bastille for
distributing an "abominable poem about the king." So began the
Affair of the Fourteen, a police crackdown on ordinary citizens for
unauthorized poetry recitals. Why was the official response to
these poems so intense? In this captivating book, Robert Darnton
follows the poems as they passed through several media: copied on
scraps of paper, dictated from one person to another, memorized and
declaimed to an audience. But the most effective dispersal occurred
through music, when poems were sung to familiar tunes. Lyrics often
referred to current events or revealed popular attitudes toward the
royal court. The songs provided a running commentary on public
affairs, and Darnton brilliantly traces how the lyrics fit into
song cycles that carried messages through the streets of Paris
during a period of rising discontent. He uncovers a complex
communication network, illuminating the way information circulated
in a semi-literate society. This lucid and entertaining book
reminds us of both the importance of oral exchanges in the history
of communication and the power of "viral" networks long before our
internet age.
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